2 Kings 18:36 - King James 2000

³⁶ But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, Answer him not.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, Do not answer him.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

Common English Bible

³⁶ But the people kept quiet and didn’t answer him with a single word, because King Hezekiah’s command was, “Don’t answer him!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ But the people were silent, and they did not respond at all to him. For indeed, they had received an instruction from the king that they should not respond to him.

2 Kings 18:36 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 18:35

Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

2 Kings 18:37

Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.

Psalm 39:1

[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

Proverbs 26:4

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like unto him.

Proverbs 9:7

He that reproves a scoffer gets for himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself injury.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

A time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Matthew 7:6

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and tear you.